Thank you for sending this information, it's very enlightening!
Now that I can see it as 'vain' rather than 'proud', it makes a lot more
sense. (I'll write to my sister at once, so she can add the idea to her
family history record.)
-Linda
On 13/11/2011 22:29, Carol Kocian wrote:
Interesting — in 18thC reenactment, I heard that you did not tie
anything under your chin unless you had a chin to hide. I don't know if
it came from an 18thC source, because various "folksy" things are shared
in reenactment.
-Carol
On Nov 13, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Linda Walton wrote:
As the list is so quiet, I'll take this opportunity to raise a point
that has always puzzled me, and hope that it will not be off topic.
My great-grandmother lived in the North of England, (north
Lancashire), at the end of the Victorian era, and I know very little
about her, except that she was considered a very proud woman because
she wouldn't tie her bonnet strings.
It's bothered me all my life, and of course I should have asked my
older relatives, but I've left it too late now, and they are all gone.
So: can anyone explain what that was about?
Awaiting all suggestions with interest,
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
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